FRANKLIN
In the middle of a crowded meeting room, Teresa McCaskey, a 23-year employee of International Paper, was having a private chat with the governor.
She told him she would soon lose her job as a paper machine inspector, that her family income would be significantly lower, that the family has a mortgage of about $1,200 a month and two car payments.
She said she was concerned they couldn’t pay the mortgage or afford medicine if they were sick. Even on unemployment, she said, she would make too much to qualify for food stamps.
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